PROFESSOR GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN Prof of Linguistics & Endangered Languages School of Humanities Faculty of Arts Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability. Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Cantab.) (titular), is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, a tenured Full Professor (Level E), at the University of Adelaide. He is chief investigator in an NHMRC project assessing the correlation between language revival and mental health. He is a leading expert of (1) Revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation (e.g. Barngarla), revitalization (e.g. Adnyamathanha) and reinvigoration (e.g. Irish), (2) the study of language, culture, identity and wellbeing, (3) multiple causation, cross-fertilization and horizontal gene transfer in languages, (4) contact linguistics, (5) sources of lexical expansion and camouflaged borrowing, and (6) lexicography. Professor Zuckermann is the President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) (2017-) and past President of the Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX) (2013-2015). Professor Zuckermann is the author of "Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond" (Oxford University Press, New York, 2020) (ISBN 978–0–19–981279–0 (pbk), ISBN 978–0–19–981277–6 (hbk); https://global.oup.com/academic/product/revivalistics- 9780199812790?lang=en&cc=us ; 30% Discount Promo Code: AAFLYG6), the revolutionary bestseller "Israelit Safa Yafa" (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) (ISBN: 978-965-13-1963-1, Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2008, and "Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew" (ISBN: 1-4039-1723-X, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Professor Zuckermann has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). He serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact. He has been Consultant and Expert Witness -- in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics -- in court cases all over the globe, e.g. Trade Marks / Intellectual Property, e.g. Federal Court of Australia: Moroccanoil vs Aldi: http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2017/2017fc a0823 . Professor Zuckermann is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL), Academy of Oriental Scholars (Shanghai), and European Association of Jewish Studies. His Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages" (with Robert Amery), has so far attracted 20,000 learners from 190 countries: https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing- future-adelaidex-lang101x-0 After studying at the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic (Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico; Duino, Trieste) and performing several years of military service, he was selected for the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, classics, literature, law and mathematics, and specialized in linguistics, receiving his M.A. (summa cum laude) from the Department of Linguistics in 1997. As Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar of St Hugh's College, Oxford, he gained his D.Phil. (Oxon.) in 2000. In 1996-1998, he served as the elected President of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, hosting scholars such as Stephen Hocking (24 February 1998). In 2000-2004 he was Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge. He has published in English, Israeli (Reclaimed Hebrew), Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. Among his books are "Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond" (Oxford University Press, 2020; ISBN 978–0–19–981279–0 (pbk), ISBN 978–0–19–981277–6 (hbk)), the revolutionary bestseller "Israelit Safa Yafa" (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) (ISBN: 978-965-13-1963-1) (Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2008), "Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew" (ISBN: 1-4039-1723- X) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), "Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property" (2015: http://www.zuckermann.org/guide.html), "Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia" (2018: https://www.barngarlalanguage.com/dictionary), "Barngarlidhi Manoo" (Speaking Barngarla Together) (2019). He contributed three chapters to Tingo (Tel Aviv: Keren, 2011) and edited Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Jewish Language Contact (special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 226, 2014), and Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (AustraLex, 2014). Prof. Zuckermann has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in four continents, e.g. at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies, now known as Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), National University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), University of Miami, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Košice, Slovakia), The University of Queensland (UQ) (Associate Professor 2006-2010), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Shanghai Customs College, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) and East China Normal University (ECNU). He has been research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy), Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center(University of Texas at Austin), Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyuujo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo), and Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). In 2015 he was elected Rex J Lipman Fellow at St Peter's College, Adelaide. Remarkably, Professor Zuckermann has held 5-year competitive awards from both the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2017-2021, Large Project Grant) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) (2007-2011, Discovery Fellowship). He has held a range of other fellowships and scholarships, including a 5-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship, Project 211 Fellowship (China), "Shanghai Oriental Scholar" Professorial Fellowship, British Academy Research Grant, Braginsky Centre Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship. Professor Zuckermann has organized various international conferences such as the first Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL) (11-13 September 2009, held at the Brisbane Writers Festival, State Library of Queensland, and at the University of Queensland, attracting scholars from 18 countries); Cross-Fertlization in Language and Genetics (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 21 January 2013); Hybridity in Israel (Beit Leyvik, Tel Aviv, 29 January 2013); AUSTRALEX 2013: Endangered Words and Signs of Revival (University of Adelaide, 25-28 July 2013), and AAJS (University of Adelaide, 9-11 February 2014): http://www.aajs.org.au/. He is the founder and convener of the Adelaide Language Festival (e.g. 16-17 May 2014, http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/linguistics/alf/, and 29 November 2017, https://www.lcnau2017.org/adelaide-languages-festival). Professor Zuckermann has been consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Oxford University Press (OUP), Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies (University of Miami), and Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv. He is Editorial Board Member of Journal of Language Contact, Jewish Contemporary Review, Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East, Israeli Journal of Humor Research, The Open Applied Linguistics Journal; Scientific Committee Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); Academic Committee Member of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA); Thought Leader of Creativity Australia, Melbourne; and Advisory Board Member of Gifted Speech. He has been referee for Yale University Press (YUP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), Oxford University Press (OUP), Languages in Contrast, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics), Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, International Journal of Lexicography, CamLing (Conference in Language Research, University of Cambridge), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), The Leverhulme Trust, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), and the Academic Research Fund of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). In 2008 he was President of the Jury of the BIFF Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values, Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, plenary conference papers and invited public lectures all over the globe. Professor